We had a request from Mrs. Poulin’s Kindergarten class in Massachusetts in the U.S. to send a Flat Stanley to her class. Laura and Catherine sent Stanley to her class. Mrs. Poulin’s class had lots of fun with him and took all kinds of photos. The photos are in her Picassa album. Click on the [...]
Entries from May 27, 2010
Art Appreciation
May 22, 2010 · 21 Comments · Uncategorized
My class is reading about artists and looking at their paintings. We read a book about Henri Matisse the other day and learned a little about his life and his style of art. I found an interactive website that we put up on the smartboard called Matisse for Kids This interactive site shows you how [...]
Colors
May 21, 2010 · 33 Comments · Uncategorized
The English Language Arts consultants for our School Board put together an end of cycle exam for our second graders. It was a media literacy unit focusing on Color. We read some books about color. We chose a color we thought was the best. In small groups we had discussions about what feelings would go [...]
Flat Stanley’s Canadian Adventures
May 16, 2010 · 83 Comments · Uncategorized
All our Flat Stanleys had amazing adventures. We had a map of Canada on our bulletin board and marked all the provinces that Stanley visited. Amelie’s Stanley met another Flat Stanley while shopping in Edmonton, Alberta. The other Flat Stanley was visiting from Mexico. Branden’s Stanley visited his brother in northern Quebec and visited some [...]
Tags: flatstanley·geography·photos·writing
Flat Stanley Visits Wallsend, NSW, Australia
May 14, 2010 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
Kamillah made a extra Flat Stanley and we sent him to Ms. Amy Hannah’s grade 2/3H Superstars in Australia. Wow, what an adventure Stanley had. A package arrived back last week with Stanley and lots of messages from her students. Stanley popped out and was so excited to tell us about all his new friends [...]
Tags: flatstanley·geography·photos·Reading·writing
May is Family Blogging and Commenting Month
May 13, 2010 · 11 Comments · Uncategorized
Room 102 loves to share what we are learning in our classroom with our families and friends. We’d like to involve our family and friends even more in our learning by challenging them to leave us a comment on our blog. It makes what we do in our class even more special when family and [...]
Tags: writing
Follow Friday Award
May 11, 2010 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
I was very happy to hear that Pam Thompson in Australia nominated our blog for this blog award. Pam has a blog called Thinking Allowed in Australia. I feel very honoured to be one of her favorite blogs. The purpose of the award is to spread the word about blogs and share the ones we [...]
Happy Mother’s Day
May 7, 2010 · 25 Comments · Uncategorized
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms of our class and all the Moms who visit our blog. Thanks to Miss McGeady and her Mother’s Day video for the wonderful song I used on our slideshow. She lives in Australia. I downloaded the song from http://www.gunanddollshow.com/music/mothersday/music.html. Check our Miss McGeady’s wonderful Grade 2 video by [...]
Reading and Writing Buddies
May 3, 2010 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 2 has “Reading and Writing Buddies” in Grade 4. They have helped us this year sometimes with our reading and sometimes with our writing. Most recently they helped us write an “Important Poem”. To prepare for our buddies we read the Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. We looked at the structure of the [...]
